Steve Tobin's Natural History

Steve Tobin's Natural History
Author: Donald Burton Kuspit
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781555952112

This book assembles twenty years of work in dramatic color photographs, a magnificent mid-career survey of a remarkable sculptor who turns nature into art.

Elective Affinities

Elective Affinities
Author: Catriona MacLeod
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9042026197

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Catriona MacLeod -- Summaries -- Consulting the Manual: Word and Image in Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés /Michael R. Taylor -- Living and Dying in the Limelight: Performing the Self in Frida Kahlo's Diary and Paintings /Adriana Dragomir -- Imbrication de l'image, du texte et de la musique dans un corpus de prières énigmatiques à la Vierge /Laurence Wuidar -- The Künstlerroman as Romantic Arabesque: Parody, Collaboration, and the Making of The Modern Vasari (1854) /Cordula Grewe -- The “Inscapes” of Louis le Brocquy /Karen E. Brown -- American Scenery/Canadian Scenery: Conflicting Views of Indigenes in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Portrayals of the American Continent /Robert Grant -- Cartoonists as Matchmakers: The Vibrant Relationship of Text and Image in the Work of Lynda Barry /Miriam Harris -- The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image: Transmetropolitan's Critique of the Society of the Spectacle /Steen Christiansen -- Le magazine français Vu (1928-40): Naissance de l'information visuelle et utopie de la substitution de l'image photographique au texte écrit /Danielle Leenaerts -- From Ekphrasis to History: Verbal Transformations of the Display of Picture Galleries--Wilhelm Heinse and Friedrich Schlegel /Hubert Locher -- Modernizing History and Historicizing Modernity: Baudelaire and Baudelairean Representations of Contemporaneity /Lauren S. Weingarden -- Serial Künstler: Portrait of the Artist as a Malefactor /Valentin Nussbaum -- Hypnotic Performance and the Falsity of Appearances: The Aesthetics of Medical Spectatorship and Axel Munthe's Critique of Jean-Martin Charcot /Jonathan Marshall -- New Light and Old Shadows: Industrial Illumination and its Imaginaire /Susana Oliveira -- Illustrating the Shadow of Doubt: Henry James, Blindness, and “The Real Thing” /Jennifer A. Greenhill -- Picturing Paradise: Baudelaire's “L'Invitation au voyage” /Eric T. Haskell -- The Writing-Drawing Continuum of Alexei Remizov /Julia Friedman -- Aby Warburg as Reader of Gottfried Semper: Reflections on the Cosmic Character of Ornament /Spyros Papapetros -- John Heartfield's Insects and the “Idea” of Natural History /Cristina Cuevas-Wolf -- The Photographic Thought of Latina/o Literature and Cultural Critique /María DeGuzmán -- Diderot, Brecht, Eisenstein, Fassbinder: Découpage Aesthetics on the Divide /Susan Nurmi-Schomers -- (Ideo-)Logical Alliances between Image and Script: Calligraphic Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Art /Birgit Mersmann -- Contributors -- Index.

Nature Transformed

Nature Transformed
Author: Sean M. Ulmer
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781930561083

This publication presents a selection of wood-based works from the collection of Robert Bohlen, one of the finest and most thorough collectors of wood art. The artistic progress of the medium is analyzed by a wide array of essays.

American Studio Glass, 1960-1990

American Studio Glass, 1960-1990
Author:
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781555952396

A unique exploration of the question, can art be fashioned out of glass? Analysis of the philosophical and circumstantial factors that reveal the early history of the movement and the clash of ambitions and power that marked the relationship between the worlds of so-called crafts and high art. 81 colour & 47 b/w illustrations

Bill Barrett

Bill Barrett
Author: Philip F. Palmedo
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781555952235

This beautiful monograph traces the forty-year evolution of the vision and technique of a major contemporary sculptor, whose work is characterized by dynamic balance and compositional rigor.

Hans Van de Bovenkamp

Hans Van de Bovenkamp
Author: Hans van de Bovenkamp
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781555952488

This vivid monograph examines the often surprising and stunning sculpture of Hans Van de Bovenkamp. He is best known for his groundbreaking work in public sculpture. His art covers a myriad of sculptural objects located in accessible open places. 92 colour & 35 b/w illustrations

Edge of the Sublime

Edge of the Sublime
Author: Jeannine J. Falino
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781555952846

A beautifully illustrated catalogue of over 100 color plates, it addresses artist's lifework who first established his international reputation in 1986 when he produced enameled jewelry using unique, electroformed shapes.

Judy Pfaff

Judy Pfaff
Author: Irving Sandler
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781555952228

For the past thirty years Judy Pfaff's challenging and imaginative installations have set the pace during a dynamic and changing period in contemporary art. This richly illustrated book offers the first thorough look at the career of this influential artist who helped bring the revolutionary liveliness of the late 20th century to the walls and spaces of galleries and museums.